AFRISIG

The 13th African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG) kicked off at 7:00 pm Tanzanian time on 23 May 2025 with a stylish round of self-introductions by fellows and faculty members from 13 African countries. Over the years, the school has built a solid reputation for producing future advocates of multistakeholder internet governance and for strengthening their capacity across various dimensions of the digital space.

“At the African School on Internet Governance, we choose empowerment and inclusion for all Africans to learn, aspire and act,” said Nkundwe Mwasaga, the director… Read more

When I landed in Dar es Salaam in the United Republic of Tanzania) for this year’s African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG), I was greeted by more than just the humid ocean breeze – there was an immediate sense of warmth that permeated every interaction. From the shuttle driver who patiently showed us places of interest as we drove to the Southern Sun Dar es Salaam, a long-standing hotel deeply invested in the city’s hospitality sector – having been officially opened by President Benjamin Mkapa himself – to fellow participants who shared stories of their home towns over five days of… Read more

It was with great joy that I participated in the 13th training course of the African School on Internet Governance, AfriSIG 2025, held in Dar es Salaam at the Julius Nyérére International Convention Centre (JNICC), United Republic of Tanzania, from 23 to 28 May 2025.

AfriSIG 2025 was an opportunity for me, as a government official, to understand the need for multistakeholder internet governance. The school provides a framework for the exchange of ideas and experiences between countries to enable them guide their telecommunications development strategies and better understand how to… Read more

Abstract:

Since Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum’s announcement in 2016 of the impending Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in his book of the same title, the world has been swept up in the wave of global hype around the extraordinary potential for 4IR technologies – artificial intelligence, robotics, drones and blockchains – and the dire fate of nations who fail to embrace these inevitable technological developments. This has now been repackaged by Schwab and the WEF in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic as… Read more

No matter how many times I sit in a space that is reflecting on, learning from or critiquing issues around gender, I am always both pleased and flummoxed by the range of perspectives in the room, with some people gasping at the idea that gender is and always has been a spectrum and other people strongly affirming the importance of LGBTIQA inclusion in all spaces including, in this case, on the internet.

APC invited me to participate in this year’s African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG), which took place in Zanzibar, less than 100 metres from the warm waters of the Indian… Read more

I have wanted to attend the African School on  Internet Governance (AfriSIG) ever since I participated in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as an ISOCYouth@IGF fellow last year. It was through this formative experience that I first developed a passion for internet governance. Even with my limited background in the field, I decided to organise the Arusha Women School of Internet Governance (AruWSIG) and the Tanzania School of Internet Governance (TzSIG) with the hopes of sharing my newfound knowledge with my community.

When I received confirmation of my acceptance to AfriSIG, I… Read more

Sur l’art de la négociation par Larry Strickling. Lary S. est un négociateur fin, ayant travaillé sous l’administration de Barack Obama. Cette année, l’école sur la gouvernance de l’internet en Afrique a eu l’honneur les 10 et 11 octobre 2018 de voir la participation de Larry Strickling en tant que formateur.   

“Connais-toi toi-même et tu connaîtras l’univers et les dieux” disait Socrate. Cette citation illustre très bien l’une des grandes leçons exposées par Larry lorsqu’il parle du profil de négociateur. En effet, d’après Larry, chaque être humain, dispose d’un… Read more

La 6e École africaine sur la Gouvernance de l’Internet (AfriSIG) qui se tient à Zanzibar en Tanzanie du 11 au 16 octobre 2018, réunit trente-cinq apprenants et une vingtaine d’encadreurs, experts et personnes ressources. L’AfriSIG est un cours intensif annuel d’apprentissage et de partage des connaissances de cinq jours, organisé par l’Association pour le Progrès des Communications (APC) et la… Read more

When I was first accepted to join the African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG), I thought that it would be a dense, academic course, with tech experts and policy makers coming together to discuss issues around internet governance. Coming from a non-tech, civil society background (my work is on curbing hate speech in Nigeria through online reporting and countering), I arrived at AfriSIG as a novice to the internet governance table. My perception was that internet governance is all about monitoring and governing content online with a focus on data… Read more

The Internet Society’s Collaborative Internet Governance Project Workshop, facilitated by Larry Strickling and Fiona Asonga of the Internet Society (ISOC), evaluates different negotiation processes by exploring multiple case studies and scenarios. The purpose of the event is to help fellows from the school of internet governance to build their capacity for effective negotiation in complex, real-life situations.

Having run the event with fellows from the European School of Internet Governance (EuroSIG) and the African School of Internet Governance… Read more